Grammy's Kitchen · Apple Pie · Apple Cranberry Pie
One of 64 apple pie recipes we measured
It ranks #64 of 64 for sweetness perceived among the apple pie recipes we compared. 148 cooks on www.melskitchencafe.com rate it 4.8★.
Every ingredient resolved to grams, expressed against the recipe's own base — next to the median of all 64.
| this recipe | typical | |
|---|---|---|
| fat | 5% | 14% |
| liquid | 2% | 3% |
| total sugar | 12% | 54% |
| brown sugar share of total sugar | 42% | 0% |
| egg | 2% | 10% |
Adapts cleanly: dairy-free, egg-free, nut-free (documented swaps, applied on the dish page)
Weights computed by us.
| 2070 g | 9- inch double crust pie dough |
| 794 g | 4-5 medium apples (about 1.75 pounds; I use Honeycrisp, peeled, cored and sliced 1/8-inch thick (about 5-6 cups total)) |
| 31 g | 2 tablespoons lemon juice |
| 4 g | 1 teaspoon almond extract |
| Pinch salt | |
| 1 1/2 to 2 cups fresh cranberries | |
| 114 g | 1/2 cup salted butter |
| 60 g | 1/2 cup all-purpose flour |
| 30 g | 2 tablespoons water |
| 150 g | 3/4 cup granulated sugar |
| 106 g | 1/2 cup light brown sugar |
| 50 g | 1 large egg |
| 15 g | 1 tablespoon water |
Method: 11 steps, published by www.melskitchencafe.com — open the original ↗ or use bake mode for a follow-along with a screen that stays on.
“First, let me start by saying that pie is my favorite dessert. (Translation: I’ve made and eaten a lot of pie.) If I could give this pie 10 stars I would. I opted for the crumble topping you suggested from your strawberry rhubarb pie (mostly because at the las” — a cook, 5.0★
“The poe was delicious. Followed exactly. But the “sauce” def was NOT like the pictures. The butter n flour made a crumbly roux. With the addition of the sugar it made a chunky almost hard caramel pcs. I tried heating more to see if the sugar would melt an” — a cook, 3.0★